Suspenders.



P. W. MALLY & E. PLHUDSON.

SUSPENDBRS.

APFLIGATION FILED 11110.15, 1910.

Patented Oct. 21, 1913.

TED STATES PATENT OEEIGE.

FREDERICK W. MALLY, OF AUSTIN, TEXAS, ANI) EDWIN P. HUDSON, OF DES MOINES, IOWA; SAID MALLY ASSIGNOR TO SAID HUDSON.

SUSPENDERS.

Application filed December 15, 1910.

To all 107mm t may concern Be it known that we, FREDERICK W. MALLY and EDWIN P. HUDSON, citizens of the United States of America, and residents of Austin, Travis county, Texas, and Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, respectively, have invented new and useful Suspenders, of which the following is a speciiication.

The object of this invention is to provide improved means for supporting trousers and drawers, or two garments of similar form, simultaneously by the same Suspenders.

A further object of this invention is to provide improved means for supporting a plurality of tabs oonjunctively and at the same altitude on the front ends of suspender webs in such manner that either of said tabs may be moved longitudinally or laterally or removed and replaced relative to its support independently of the other.

Our invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, pointed out in our claims and illustrated by the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation illustrating' means for mounting two tabs independently of each other at the same altitude and conjunctively supported on a single web or shoulder strap. Fig. 2 is a front view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section, on an enlarged scale, on the indicated line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. A is a perspective of a supporting clip or hook employed in our device. Fig. 5 is a det-ail elevation illustrating' a modified Jform of our construction.

In the construction of the device as shown the numeral 10 designates a looped end portion or front portion of a shoulder strap or elastic web of suspender, which may be constructed and connected to form the loop in any common and well known manner. A supporting device 11, preferably made of sheet metal by stamping and bending and formed with a horizontal slot 12, is sus* pended in the suspender loop 10 by passage of the web through said slot. The supporting device 11 is formed with a hook 13 at its lower end and with a smaller and intermediate hook 14 bent in the opposite direction from the hook 13. The hook 1li preferably is formed by striking out a portion of the metal from the supporting device. A castoi' strap 15 is :formed with a loop on one Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 21,1913.

seriai No. 597,556.

end portion, which loop extends through a slot 16 in the supporting device 11. The cast-off strap 15 is of such length that it is adapted to extend beneath and surround and embrace the hooks 13, 14 of the supporting device. A button stud 17 is mounted through and connects the upper loop of the cast-off strap 15 to the support-ing device. The body portion of the cast-ofi1 strap 15 extends beneath the hooks 13, 111 and is provided with a button socket 1S adapted to engage and detachably connect with the button stud 17. A free end portion of the castoit strap 15 extends upwardly Jfrom the button socket 18. Duplicate tabs 19, 20, separate and independent of each other, are removably and replaceably mounted in the hooks 13, 111 and depend from the same altitude at the points of engagement with the hooks. The tabs are adapted to engage separate garments such as trousers and drawers. We contemplate the use oi identical tabs for either garment and prefer to use such tabs as will engage buttons on each or either garment. Inthis construction there is a duplication of hooks on the same supporting device and a duplication of tabs so that either of the tabs can be removed and replaced conveniently and independently of each other, a single cast-off strap embracing and eonning both tabs in the hooks.

In the construction according to Fig. 5 duplicate supporting devices 11a, 11b formed with duplicate hooks 13a, 14a are arranged back to back and connected by a button stud 17, said button stud also serving to secure a cast-off strap 15 to the supporting devices. A button socket 1S is carried by one end portion of the cast-olli strap 15 and is adapted to engage one end of the button stud 17. The function and operation of the supporting devices 11a, 11b, hooks 13a, 14a, cast-off strap 15, button stud 17 and button socket 18 are the saine in this construction as of the corresponding members previously described.

We claim as our invention- 1. In a suspender, a plurality of integral supporting hooks extending and opening in opposite directions, said hooks arranged at the same altitude, a plurality of tabs corresponding in number with said hooks, and a cast-otta strap fixed to the stem of and embracing all of said hooks, one end portion ioo only of said cast-olf strap being detachable and movable through an arc to uncover all of said hooks.

2. In a suspender, a clip formed with parallel transverse slot-s, one of said slots being adapted to receive a looped suspender strap, one end of said clip formed as a hook and also formed with an inner hook projecting oppositely from and in the same altitude with the first hook, a cast-off strap mounted through one of said slots and adapted to embrace both hooks, a single button stud mounted through said cast-ott1 strap and f clip, and a button socket on said strap adapted to engage said stud, said hooks adapted to suDport separate and independent tabs.

Signed by me, EDWIN P. HUDSON, at Des Moines, Iowa, this 10th day of October, 1910, and signed by me, FREDERICK W. MALLY, at 20 Austin, Texas, this 29th day of October,

FREDERICK W. MALLY. EDWIN P. HUDSON. Witnesses to Mallys signature:

M. D. WYATT, MARY P. THOMPSON. Vitnesses to Hudsons signature:

y S. C. SWEET,

F. H. MALLY.

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' Washington, D. C. f 

